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Global rankings entered the field of higher education (HE) 15 years ago. They encourage universities to compete with each other in research and education both nationally and internationally. It has... Read more

There is a particularly tight intertwining of domestic and foreign policy variables under Mr. Putin. In the domestic realm the closest analogy one may find is in literature, particularly in the books... Read more

Abstract: A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S.... Read more

Konstantin Zamyatin is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki. Zamyatin’s current research interests are ethnic... Read more

NB This seminar will take place on the Tuesday of Week 4 of the current series (6 February), not the Monday. Sergei M. Guriev is a Russian economist, the chief economist at the European Bank for... Read more

Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the... Read more